Breaking the Limits: How Folia Made 1,000 Player Minecraft Server a Reality

Re:Breaking the Limits: How Folia Made 1,000 Player Minecraf... by zimpenfish on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @05:20AM (#36490668)

> People on such big servers build farms

~Normally, yeah, but Folia is based on Paper which, AFAIK, is known for its unreliability when it comes to the technical aspects of Minecraft (ie redstone and farms.) Even your bog-standard simple item sorter is apparently a bit hit-or-miss on Paper.~

Edit: Possibly outdated info, things sound better re: technical Minecraft support on Paper now according to 'ocelotpotpie.

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Re:Breaking the Limits: How Folia Made 1,000 Player Minecraf... by ocelotpotpie on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @05:27AM (#36490711)

The hardcore technical folks seem to prefer things that don't alter the vanilla mechanics quite as much as Paper, it's true. But FWIW there are lots of farm and redstone designs that work reliably on Paper.

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Re:Breaking the Limits: How Folia Made 1,000 Player Minecraf... by zimpenfish on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @05:27AM (#36490718)

> But FWIW there are lots of farm and redstone designs that work reliably on Paper.

Ah, good to know - been a long while since I last tried Paper.

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Re:Breaking the Limits: How Folia Made 1,000 Player Minecraf... by ghosty141 on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @05:47AM (#36490833)

Its fine for most stuff the average player does. I wouldnt run a redstone computer on it but I personally never had an issue with my farms.

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Re:Breaking the Limits: How Folia Made 1,000 Player Minecraf... by nottorp on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @10:09AM (#36493030)

> Even your bog-standard simple item sorter is apparently a bit hit-or-miss on Paper.~

My simple sorters have been working just fine(tm) on Paper in the last (>5) few years.

I do hear co players having occasional problems with fancier set ups, but most automation just works.

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